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Re: License-Grant field in debian/control



On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 23:10:02 +0200, Alex Muntada wrote:

> Today I was running «mr up» in ~/src/pkg-perl and found an error
> that I've seen in other occasions too:
> 
>     [...obtaining upstream URL running "dpt upstream-repo"...]
> 
>     Invalid field given (License_Grant) at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Copyright.pm line 131.
> 
> There are 140 packages that have a License-Grant field in the
> debian/copyright file and it doesn't seem to be a known field
> according to copyright format 1.0. Am I missing something?

It's under discussion:
https://bugs.debian.org/786470


(And Copyright-Format 1.0 allows arbitrary additional fields: in Point
4: "Extra fields can be added to any paragraph. No prefixing is
necessary or desired, but please avoid names similar to standard ones
so that mistakes are easier to catch.")

Cheers,
gregor

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